Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

Never give up in life, give your whole hearted try to every challenge coming your way even though the challenge seems impossible and much beyond your reach and potential.

Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person.

Home is not a place. Home is security, predictability, reliability, dependability, safety, permanence combined together.

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

If you love something, give it away...

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

O, she is the antidote to desire.